by David | Apr 11, 2012 | E-ink devices
Today’s news of the antitrust suit filed by the DOJ against Apple and a consortium of large book publishers raises some interesting questions. First, here’s what the government alleges (h/t Wall St. Journal) In a civil antitrust lawsuit, the Justice...
by David | Mar 20, 2012 | Digital Migration, Video
OK, I’ll admit it. I’m as guilty of assigning myself a made-up title as anyone. But c’mon – “Digital Alchemist” is pretty cool. And it’s a nice shorthand for what I do – which is to research, study, broadcast via social...
by David | Feb 21, 2012 | new media, Online Video
Dep’t of Vaporware: New Super-Duper HTML5 Video Players Will Solve All Your Problems I’m starting to get more than a little annoyed at the incessant blithe assurances that keep coming up around the (now) universally agreed-upon proposition that Flash Is...
by David | Nov 20, 2011 | Digital Migration
Norwegian company Norli Libris introduces nonsensical “eBook” publishing model Quick Hit: Saw this on BoingBoing, followed it over to Applied Abstractions, and just couldn’t resist commenting on it, for 1) the benefit of my international students,...
by David | Jul 1, 2011 | Design, Digital Migration, google
In less than five minutes, I responded to an invitation (that is probably still in pretty high demand) and signed up for Google+. Being able to add people to the circles is an absolutely frickin’ brilliant move! The little animations are absolutely killer. I...